TAKE ACTION! Contact Congress: The EPA Must Grant California’s Clean Air Waivers Before Time Runs Out!

TAKE ACTION! Contact Congress: The EPA Must Grant California’s Clean Air Waivers Before Time Runs Out!

January 2, 2025

The EPA must grant California’s clean air waivers immediately. Contact your Congressmember today!

OpEd: What the 2024 election means for California’s air and climate

OpEd: What the 2024 election means for California’s air and climate

December 6, 2024

California will need to be ready to defend our people’s rights to clean air and water.

Despite budget cuts, some clean air wins

Despite budget cuts, some clean air wins

June 25, 2024

The 2024-2025 State Budget agreement represents a major setback for California’s climate and clean air commitments. For the second straight year, California will delay and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in climate investments. These cuts will impact California’s efforts to deploy clean vehicles, expand transit as well as build biking and pedestrian infrastructure. Further,

Dead End Road: California Agencies Continue to Invest in Highway Expansions

Dead End Road: California Agencies Continue to Invest in Highway Expansions

May 13, 2024

California prides itself on being the land of opportunity. It is a place that welcomes all and inspires with its unique diversity of life, nature, and cultures. Yet over the past seventy years, our state has spent billions of funding on highway expansion projects that increase poverty, reduce the quality of life, separate communities, destroy

Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs

Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs

April 30, 2024

This year has been tough for clean transportation in California. With the State making budget cuts and a powerful highway lobby pushing back, the Coalition for Clean Air and our allies have had our work cut out for us. CCA is one of the leaders of a climate budget defense campaign that seeks to protect

CCA’s First Ever Solutions Tour

CCA’s First Ever Solutions Tour

April 22, 2024

This April, in time for Earth Day, we held the inaugural Solutions Tour organized by the Coalition for Clean Air at the San Pedro Bay Ports. The tour’s goals were to highlight the power of collaboration, innovation, and investment in advancing clean air for the South Coast Air Basin. With site visits across the port

CCA’s Policy Forecast for the Coming Year

CCA’s Policy Forecast for the Coming Year

April 22, 2024

Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs This year has been tough for clean transportation in California. With the State making budget cuts and a powerful highway lobby pushing back, the Coalition for Clean Air and our allies have had our work cut out for us. CCA is one of the leaders of

CCA: Decades of Impact – 2010 and Beyond

CCA: Decades of Impact – 2010 and Beyond

December 22, 2023

2010 and Beyond If you’ve made it this far, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading these. I’m very grateful to Nicole Roberts, our Development Director and Dr. Joe Lyou, our President and CEO for allowing me the time and space to write these blogs and dig into CCA’s history. Like any

CCA: Decades of Impact – The 2000s

CCA: Decades of Impact – The 2000s

December 19, 2023

Welcome to the 21st century, you survived Y2k (again!). Two quick notes: 1) in the last blog, we mostly covered the legacy of Denny Zane, whose contribution has gone down in Los Angeles history. Tim Carmichael started as Executive Director in the late ‘90s and, therefore, should have started in that blog, I’m discussing CCA’s

CCA: Decades of Impact – The 1990s

CCA: Decades of Impact – The 1990s

December 14, 2023

‘90s Welcome back! I hope you’re buckled in because there’s a lot to cover in this decade. In the last two decades, we saw CCA establish itself as a prominent voice in air quality issues in California. The ‘90s continues the story of the fallout from Abramowitz vs. EPA and brings new leadership, renewed energy,

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